presents different kinds of portable or folding houses and its applicability in our society. This also discusses about low cost houses which is suitable for low income families. Low cost houses are intended for fast increasing population country that prone from illegal settlers‚ who lived and stayed in urban places in order to work and to do other activities for survival. With the high cost of building materials‚ the designer is task to design a residential house with a limited budget to provide his client
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A Lodging House in Moscow about 1905 Source A and B offers a valuable insight for a historian studying the lives of Russian people at the beginning of the 20th century. Source A is a primary source. It is a photograph from the year of 1905 but the origins of the source are unknown. The photograph shows the Prolartiat living in a small lodging house that shows the unsatisfactory living conditions that the Russian working class is known to have lived their daily lives in. The perspective of source
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The protagonist‚ Little Chandler‚ of James Joyce’s short story "The Little Cloud" is a weak‚ timid man. Chandler is unable to express his feeling through either reading or writing poems and his mind is always thinking of "his friend’s success". These factors lead to an internal conflict he experiences within himself. The internal conflict of Little Chandler is revealed in the narrator’s comments‚ Chandler’s comparison with his friend‚ what he thought of his life‚ and even his marriage. At the beginning
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The Farnsworth House was designed and constructed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The project was commissioned in 1945 by Dr. Edith Farnsworth‚ a wealthy nephrologist who intent to build a special piece of modern architecture. She bought a 60-acre estate site which was located 89 km southwest of Chicago downtown for the building to be constructed. The intention of the design was to create a weekend retreat for the client to engage in her hobbies. Mies eventually created a 1500 square feet elevated steel
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The Bait-al-taa or House of Obedience is a provision in Islam law which gives husbands the right to demand obedience from their wives. If a woman leaves her husband’s home without his permission he has the right to force her to come back. The husband can claim “nushaz” or disobedience and order her to come back with a qadi (judgement.) Once the woman returns she stays either at her husband’s home or in another living area (House of Obedience) which provides the woman with essential necessities. Divorce
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(E) The deserted house Wandering unaccompanied along the lane with sadness and emotion. There was just silence and huge giant trees. Not realising how long it had been‚ I found myself stood in front of a big old house. I unconvincingly stared at it and thought to myself‚ what brought me here. It was quite a big house which was situated on it’s own in the middle of nowhere. Around the house‚ there was a towering strong brick wall which was positioned there like a prime guard to protect the
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THE HOUSE ON THE HILL The mystery of this house dated back to 1945 during the era of the World War 2. A businessman and his petite woman from France occupied this property. The husband was a tall‚ thin and dashing guy. The wife was slender‚ demure and beautiful. Her green eyes glowed in the sun. People say she looked as beautiful as Snow White. No one in all of London looked more beautiful. at the time they had no children so‚ they were quite lonely in the big house. The couple often threw parties
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Chicago are explained very well throughout the readings from the Hull House articles. They give real world insight to what the time was like back then. The Hull House was founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 and was the most famous Settlement House in the United States. The first section that I chose to read was the “Beginnings of Settlement Life In Chicago” and the area of The Experiment in Chicago. Making the Hull House available to those who were not fortunate was a great idea to create
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Dream House Everyone has their own thoughts about their dream house. These days homes are more affordable because of the economy and all the foreclosures makes it much easier to afford a really nice house. My dream house is not a fancy house that I could never afford; its a home I could see my wife and I having in the future. I have seen many homes
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A house on fire One day‚ I was studying at home. Suddenly there was a loud noise. I came out of my house to know what had happened in the neighborhood. What I saw‚ I could not stop my scream. A house in my neighborhood had caught fire; people from the neighboring areas were rushing towards the house. They were pouring buckets of water to extinguish fire. Many people were throwing sands and dust over the fire. A few people were trying to control fire by throwing blankets on it. But the fire was
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